Carbon Dioxide Residence Time in the Atmosphere, by Robert A. Rohde of globalwarmingart.com and is licensed under the Global Warming Art license. source link
The figure is showing the degree to which CO2 emissions persist in the atmosphere over time. The lifetime of a gas in the atmosphere is called as its “residence time”.Co2 undergoing a simple decline over a single predictable timescale will not happen. The excess carbon is first diluted by the carbon cycle as it mixes into the oceans and biosphere over a period of a few hundred years, and then it is slowly removed over hundreds of thousands of years as it is gradually incorporated into carbonate rocks.Source:globalwarmingart. The Article is here.
